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The Conversations At Curlow Creek
ISBN: 9780099744016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice.
In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Ad...
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An Imaginary Life
ISBN: 9780099273844 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the first century AD, Ovid was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, David Malouf has fashioned a novel about civilisation and nature, and about a boy who slowly learns how to give love.
In the first century AD, Ovid was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, David Malouf has fashioned a nov...
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50,28 |
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Every Move You Make
ISBN: 9780099502586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - this title presents their stories.
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect...
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82,44 |
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The Great World
ISBN: 9780679748366 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself.
The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters, this book has a... The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century ...
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65,51 |
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Harland's Half Acre
ISBN: 9780679776475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centered on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream. Harland's Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in...
Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centered on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brot...
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46,24 |
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The Complete Stories
ISBN: 9780307386038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of the vast Australian continent. Malouf writes about men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, puzzling over not only their own lives but also the place they have come to occupy in the lives of others. This single volume...
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fath...
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96,34 |
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Harland's Half Acre
ISBN: 9780099273837 / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possession of his dreams. Inextricably tangled with Frank is Phil Vernon, the only child of a wealthy Brisbane family, whose roots stretch back to England.
From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possess...
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82,44 |
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Fly Away Peter
ISBN: 9780099273820 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape that could accommodate a good deal. For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study.
It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landsc...
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45,24 |
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Remembering Babylon
ISBN: 9780099302421 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of The Great World.
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentiall...
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50,28 |
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Child's Play
ISBN: 9780375701412 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassination of one of Italy's most beloved men of letters.
In this penetrating novella, David Malouf, the highly acclaimed Australian author and finalist for the Booker Prize, plumbs the darker uses of our passions. Weaving a dense tapestry of sensual observation and personal events of mythic importance, he re-creates the frighteningly fascinating... In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room a...
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61,66 |
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An Imaginary Life
ISBN: 9780679767930 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world.Then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature,...
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of...
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57,80 |
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The Happy Life : The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780701187118 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? He asks why, when so many of the essential unhappinesses have largely disappeared in the developed world, does happiness continue to elude us?
Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? He asks why, when so many of the essential unhappinesses h...
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56,66 |
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Ransom
ISBN: 9780307475244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer s Iliad one of the most famous passages in all of literature.
This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives... In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer s Iliad one of the most f...
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77,07 |
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Jane Eyre
ISBN: 9780099569893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An opera that deals with the love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door.
An opera that deals with the love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door.
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66,97 |
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The Great World
ISBN: 9780099273868 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Great World gives a voice to the Australian experience of war; of the young men who have enlisted to fight other people's battles. Ranging over 70 years of Australian life, it is a novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.
The Great World gives a voice to the Australian experience of war; of the young men who have enlisted to fight other people's battles. Ranging over 70...
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Remembering Babylon
ISBN: 9780679749516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions.In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands... Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one ... |
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Fly Away Peter
ISBN: 9780679776703 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and ibises; he also meets Jim Saddler, the young woodsman who becomes Ashley's guide to his inheritance. Together they discard the differences of personality and class to enter a partnership of wonder. But when war breaks out in Europe, Jim and Ashley are drawn into obscene...
In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in whic...
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80,92 |
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Dream Stuff
ISBN: 9780099289906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, this book presents stories that conjure up the memories and events that make a man. It uncovers vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, unfinished business, and more.
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his...
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82,44 |
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Remembering Babylon
ISBN: 9780099589730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A young boy caught in the conflict between early British settlers and native Aborigines witnesses the barbaric tensions that bedeviled the birth of a nation in this profound and mythical novel.
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, "Remembering Bablyon" tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot... A young boy caught in the conflict between early British settlers and native Aborigines witnesses the barbaric tensions that bedeviled the birth of a ...
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50,28 |
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
ISBN: 9780679779056 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, and ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories and uncover unlikely connections between their lives. 240 pp. Author tour. 20,000 print.
"From the Hardcover edition. A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spen...
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57,80 |
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